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Empieza un nuevo trimestre y una niña nueva capta la atención de Justina. Letitia no ha estado antes en la escuela y no le importan las reglas que siguen el resto de las niñas. Misteriosamente, ¡a los profesores tampoco parece importarles que no las siga! Tras un banquete a medianoche en los establos de Highbury House y el avistamiento de un fantasma vagando por los jardines del colegio, una de las amigas de Justina desaparece.

En Norfolk, un hallazgo arqueológico se convierte en la clave para resolver un crimen del pasado.La arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway regresa con un caso en el que los ritos paganos de la época celta y romana serán la clave para resolver un asesinato. Cuando los obreros que están llevando a cabo las tareas de demolición de una vieja casa en Norwich descubren el esqueleto incompleto de un niño, la arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway intenta esclarecer su procedencia.

Una novela que te calará hasta los huesos... Las húmedas marismas señalan el límite entre la vida y la muerte. Adéntrate en sus turbias aguas de la mano de la arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway. La profesora de Arqueología Forense Ruth Galloway vive en una pequeña casa junto a una marisma en el condado de Norfolk. Se trata de un área remota donde se unen mar y tierra, considerada como un lugar sagrado por los hombres de la Edad de Hierro.

Brighton, 1963. Edgar Stephens has been promoted to Superintendent and is married to his former sergeant, Emma Holmes. Edgar's wartime partner in arms, magician Max Mephisto, is a movie star in Hollywood, while his daughter Ruby has her own TV show. The funeral of an old friend highlights just how much the gang's lives have changed in the last nine years. Edgar is struggling with fresh responsibilities and the new swinging Brighton of rioting mods and rockers; Emma is chafing against the restrictions of life as a housewife.  

DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to 'go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there'. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle's baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of The Crossing Places, and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead....

Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library. It is Halloween night, and the local museum in King’s Lynn is preparing for an unusual event – the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But when Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise, she finds the museum’s curator lying dead beside the coffin. It is only a matter of time before she and DI Nelson cross paths once more, as he is called in to investigate.Soon the museum’s wealthy owner lies dead in his stables too.

Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library. Ruth Galloway’s expertise is called upon when builders, demolishing an old house in Norwich, uncover the bones of a child – minus the skull – beneath a doorway. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson investigates. The house was once a children’s home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the place. He tells him that two children did go missing forty years before – a boy and a girl.

Elizabeth II's coronation is looming, but the murder of their wartime commander, Colonel Cartwright, spoils the happy mood for DI Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto. A playbill featuring another deceased comrade is found in Colonel Cartwright's possession, and a playing card, the ace of hearts: the blood card. The wartime connection and the suggestion of magic are enough for him to put Stephens and Mephisto on the case.

Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library. When she’s not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote, wild place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea under Norfolk’s vast skies. When a child’s bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on 10 years earlier, she is asked to date them....

The murder of women priests in the shrine town of Walsingham sucks Dr. Ruth Galloway into an unholy investigation. Ruth's friend, Cathbad, is housesitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue.

Norfolk is experiencing a July heat wave when a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery - a buried World War II plane with the pilot still inside. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot, and DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock, a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. When the remaining members of the Blackstock family learn about the discovery, they seem strangely frightened by the news.

Dr Ruth Galloway is flattered when she receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He's discovered a group of bones in a tiny hilltop village near Rome but doesn't know what to make of them. It's years since Ruth has had a holiday, and even a working holiday to Italy is very welcome!

Christmas 1953. Max Mephisto, and his daughter, Ruby, are headlining Brighton Hippodrome, an achievement only slightly marred by the less-than-savoury support act: a tableau show of naked 'living statues'. This might appear to have nothing in common with DI Edgar Stephens's investigation into the death of a quiet flower seller, but if there's one thing the old comrades have learned it's that, in Brighton, the line between art and life - and death - is all too easily blurred.

Brighton, 1965. When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no one suspects foul play. But when the post-mortem reveals that he was poisoned, suspicion falls on his wife, eccentric ex-music hall star Verity Malone.  Frustrated by the police response to Bert's death and determined to prove her innocence, Verity calls in private detective duo Emma Holmes and Sam Collins.

Max, now divorced and living in London, is on the way to visit Ruby and her new-born daughter when he is hailed by an old magician friend Ted English, aka The Great Deceiver. Ted is terrified because his assistant, Cherry, has been found dead in her Brighton boarding house and he's convinced that he'll be accused of her murder. Max agrees to talk to Edgar, who is investigating the case. But what Max doesn't know is that the girl's family have hired private detective duo Emma Holmes and Sam Collins to do some digging of their own.

El 31 de octubre de 2009, la arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway debe supervisar la apertura de un ataúd que contiene los huesos de un obispo medieval en King’s Lynn. Pero cuando llega al museo Smith, Ruth encuentra al curador del museo, Neil Topham inconsciente al lado del ataúd. Inmediatamente avisa a los servicios de emergencia, y así su camino se cruza de nuevo con el del inspector Harry Nelson.

Un equipo de arqueólogos que investiga la erosión costera en la bahía norte de Norfolk se pone en contacto con la doctora Galloway al hallar seis cuerpos enterrados al pie de un acantilado, todos ellos muy deteriorados por el paso del tiempo. Ruth y el detective Harry Nelson se unen una vez más para desentrañar el pasado, aunque la situación es de lo más incómoda, porque Nelson debe evitar a toda costa que su esposa Michelle sospeche de la relación que hay entre ellos dos.

Sirvientas desaparecidas, maestros sospechosos y una tormenta de nieve... Para una niña intrépida y superinteligente como Justina Jones es solo el comienzo de un primer trimestre en el escalofriante colegio Highbury House. Cuando la madre de Justina muere, su padre la envía a Highbury House, un colegio privado solo para chicas de la alta sociedad. Su padre es abogado, especializado en juicios por asesinato, y está demasiado ocupado para cuidar de ella él solo.

The Plot Thickens is the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of crime writing.Bestselling author Elly Griffiths invites expert guests to lift the curtain on everything you want to know about the world of crime fiction. If you love a good murder mystery, then this is the podcast for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El trimestre de primavera ya ha llegado y Justina está de vuelta en el internado Highbury House. Cuando le asignan cuidar del señor Arthur en la Guarida del Contrabandista, una extraña casa al otro lado de las marismas que dicen está encantada, Justina enseguida se da cuenta de que no todo es lo que parece en ese lugar.